“Did the teachers call the parents quickly enough? Did the teachers call police?”

On the face of it: not really and no.

Middleton summoned the teen perps and made them cough up the video, and the lead boy admitted the abuse. (He’d do it again in Boston court, where he and the other one pleaded guilty to assault and battery.)

Still no one called the victim’s parents. And no one called police.

Not until 7 a.m. did the phone ring at the victim’s family’s home.

The father recalled a brief conversation with Middleton, who, the father said, downplayed the assault.

The parents — lawyers both — started making inquiries of their own, eventually reaching Ottawa police sexual assault unit Sgt. Nicole St. John, who expressed surprise that “nothing had been done as far as reporting the incident.”

But defence lawyer Peter Engelmann rose to peddle a compelling tale of a child manipulated by shrewd parents “out for blood.”

That 7 a.m. call from Middleton to the teen’s home?

It lasted 22 minutes, Engelmann said, pointing to phone records.

And Middleton claims he told the father in detail what happened.

So why would the father lie?

“Perhaps most importantly because he didn’t wake up his spouse.”

“He told her virtually nothing about the call,” Engelmann said.

So — “perhaps to assuage his guilt” — he gave her a Coles Notes version.

“If he’d been honest about what was said in the call, we wouldn’t be here,” Engelmann said.

Meanwhile, there was no evidence that the boy wanted to rush to the cops — he turned his cellphone off and even asked Novick if she could handle his parents.

The charges: Professional misconduct relating to allegations they refused to report to police the sexual assault of a 16-year-old student during a 2007 field trip to Boston. Novick is also accused of discouraging the student from reporting the assault.

What happened Thursday: Final legal arguments at the pair’s Ontario College of Teachers disciplinary hearing.